Racing: Soviet Song tunes up

"We have confirmed her today," said Fanshawe. "She seems fine and everything has gone well since Newmarket."

Jeremy Noseda's exciting Proclamation is also on target, having pleased partner Mick Kinane in a racecourse gallop last week. The three-year-old son of King's Best was an impressive winner of the Jersey Stakes at Royal Ascot at York last month, and will be seeking to supplement a course-and-distance success gained earlier in the season.

Other notables left in include Nayyir, a dual course winner who just failed to reel in Soviet Song last year, the progressive David Junior and John Gosden's unbeaten Sleeping Indian.